The State of the Union speech was strong…and pointless It’s the same old story with Obama; just when everyone is resigned to the fact that he’s useless, he sees the campaign season around the corner and he hits you with a speech that reminds you why he was elected in 2008. The problem is…unless you’re my friend who’s listed in the Guinness book as having the worst memory in history, you remember how utterly impotent Obama has been for the last three years. He came out of the gate strong: “Hope and change,” “Common sense principles”… The word “Conservative” vs. the word “Liberal” The label “Liberal” has awful connotations; I don’t care what anyone says. You don’t hear a whole lot of people proudly announce that they’re liberal; it’s a label that many people shirk from, and even for those that embrace it….I always feel like they have a little bile in their mouths as they try to convince themselves and the rest of the world that yes indeed, they are PROUD to be liberal. Look at this; this is the (non-political) definition… The Mitt Romney 24-hour turnaround Within 24 hours, Mitt Romney went from being a lock for 3 and 0 (Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina) to being 1 and 2. The Iowa vote was recounted and it turned out that his… The qualities I want to see in the next president Well….let me just tell you up front, this post is probably going to be useless. I’m not even precisely sure what I’m going to say here (I have a general concept in my mind), but I’ve known for some time that the kind of person that I want in the Oval office doesn’t exist. The… Ideology and principles: the bane of my existence I cannot stand MSNBC. I cannot stand Fox news. I cannot stand republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, anyone with a concrete and unbending point of view and anyone who thinks they know what the “correct answer” is to a complicated issue. If complicated issues like, oh, say, fixing the economy were simple enough for… Stephen Colbert isn’t that good Don’t get me wrong; I like Colbert a lot. The Daily Show without a Colbert Report follow-up just wouldn’t be right. But….Colbert is just not as good as Stewart. Too often he’s just exhaustingly random. His show is kind of like Family Guy. The Family Guy creators think that inserting a bunch of random bits into their show is comic genius. Ummm….no. Random bits are just random, plain and simple… Bill O’Reilly is damn good…usually Let’s get this out of the way up front: Bill O’Reilly is not a republican. He is not a conservative. To use his term, he is a traditionalist, which means he has conservative leanings, but this is not a guy that does a whole-sale espousal of conservative ideology. At his core, he is, as he likes to say… Jon Stewart is damn good…usually I wish everyone was like Jon Stewart. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone in the punditocracy, everyone in the media, all politicians etc. Because he has 3 key ingredients: 1) not a trace of political correctness, 2) an ability to cut clean through the bullshit with BITING satire and get straight to the… The correct reaction to Bain Capital Is “I don’t know.” What’s irritating to me is that raising the issue of Bain Capital has any effect at all, one way or the other. If a man who was running a positive campaign feels slighted by a competitor because the competitor decided to play a little rough, and then that man proceeds to get red in the face and put out ads attempting… Occupy wall street can kiss my ass These two-bit grungy low-life woodstock whiners make me sick. How can anybody sympathize with this movement? Have you seen any occupy images? They’re literally vagrants, grungy hippies, people that take shits on police cars, people that invade the… |
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